Agenda Apr 12

Below are the links we'll be using in the April 12, 2012 workshop. Each should open in a new window so you won't have to keep finding this page again.

Today's Meet

• Question: What are gifted kids' intellectual and academic needs?

Poll Everywhere

• Register for an educator account.
• Create a poll based on something you're currently teaching.

Primary Pad

• One person in the group starts the page.
• That person paste the URL in Today's Meet.
• Everyone else navigates to the page by copy and pasting the URL into your address window.
• Individually take notes in the document.
• As a group, categorize the notes.

Wikispaces

• The Students' History
  • Listen to the November Learning podcast: Building Legacay Within a Textbook (Garth Holman & Michael Pennington)
  • Respond to questions in Today's Meeting during the podcast
  • Link to the teachers' blog
• Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki
  • Educator created wiki to collaborate on great books for gifted kids

Bubbl.us

• Create a mindmap of the characteristics of gifted kids
• Other options
  • Mindmeister.com (http://www.mindmeister.com/)
  • Mind42.com (requires activation email) (http://mind42.com/)
  • Mindomo.com (requires activation email) (http://www.mindomo.com/)

Exploratree

• Find a graphic organizer to compare two things.
• Find a graphic organizer for multiple perspectives.
• Find a graphic organizer for SCAMPER.
• Find a graphic organizer to use with your students next week.
• Edit or create a graphic organizer.

Diagramming Free Play

• Creately.com( http://creately.com)
• Gliffy.com ( http://www.gliffy.com/)
• Cacoo.com ( https://cacoo.com/)

Multimedia Timelines

• You can read more about them in thisarticle.
  • Tiki-Toki (requires registration - 1 timeline is free)
  • XTimeline (requires registration - completely free)
  • TimeGlider (requires registration - 3 timelines free) - really cool New York Times timeline generator (no reg required)
  • Time Toast (requires registration to create - free)
  • TimeRime (requires registration to create - free)
  • Dipity (requires registration - free)
• Choose an application and search for timelines related to what you're currently teaching.
• Register and create a short timeline. (Could be a topic about which you're studying or a history of you)

Tagxedo

• Search for an article on differentiation.
• Copy the URL in the address bar. (Highlight, then Ctrl-C)
• Paste the URL in Tagxedo box. (Ctrl-V)
• Play with the layouts.
• Compare your results with your neighbor's.

Screencast-O-Matic.com

• Try it out!

Blogs to Follow

• Byrdseed Gifted (http://www.byrdseed.com/) by Ian Byrd
• Unwrapping the Gifted (http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/) by Tamara Fisher
• Gifted Exchange (http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/) by Laura Vanderkam
• Ingeniosus (http://www.ingeniosus.net/blog) by Deborah Mersino

Twitter

• #gtchat - global conversation about gifted education, 6 pm CST (US) Fridays
• Check out the handout for suggested folks to follow and articles on Twitter.

For the independent study folks:

• Weebly - free web site creater
• TED Talks - incredible source for videos by experts and innovators in a WIDE range of fields
• RSA Animate - animated sketching that enhanced fascinating lectures
• Library 2 Play: 23 Things - blog independent study on 23 web 2.0 tools